Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Morphological bases of phytoplankton energy management and physiological responses unveiled by 3D subcellular imaging

  • Clarisse Uwizeye,
  • Johan Decelle,
  • Pierre-Henri Jouneau,
  • Serena Flori,
  • Benoit Gallet,
  • Jean-Baptiste Keck,
  • Davide Dal Bo,
  • Christine Moriscot,
  • Claire Seydoux,
  • Fabien Chevalier,
  • Nicole L. Schieber,
  • Rachel Templin,
  • Guillaume Allorent,
  • Florence Courtois,
  • Gilles Curien,
  • Yannick Schwab,
  • Guy Schoehn,
  • Samuel C. Zeeman,
  • Denis Falconet,
  • Giovanni Finazzi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21314-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Phytoplankton account for a large proportion of global primary production and comprise a number of phylogenetically distinct lineages. Here, Uwizeye et al. use FIB-SEM to study ultrastructural plasticity of 7 distinct taxa and describe how subcellular organisation is linked to energy metabolism.